Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Joel, Billy

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

10.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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The high note is not the only thing.

Domingo, Placido

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

18.

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

21.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

22.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

23.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

24.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

25.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Richardson, Kevin

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.